Webinar: Decarbonization

Oskar Meijerink has been the head of Future Fuels and part of SkyNRG since 2016. In this role, he is responsible for SkyNRG’s early-stage capacity development, advisory, and knowledge management. With SkyNRG’s mission to become a SAF major, the future fuels team develops opportunities for capacity projects by assessing the viability of projects, new regions, and production pathways. Oskar studied Energy Science at Utrecht University and graduated with distinction on investments in the SAF industry at Imperial College London.

Gema has a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry. She is an Environment Air Navigation specialist with more than 15 years of experience in ENAIRE.  She actively participates in international groups such as EuroControl and CANSO, developing emissions reduction projects, Noise reduction Plans and collaborating with airline companies in the definition of indicators that help understand and reduce air transport emissions with the aim of achieving climate neutrality within the sector.

Have successfully developed the company and funded it with seed capital. Have negotiated and secured important contracts together with his team, which includes off-take, utilities, CO2 supply, long-term renewable Power, and Oxygen deliveries/distribution.

I have built up the organization with a very highly qualified management team. I brought the company through basic engineering and am ready for construction.

Secured a maximum grant award of €40 million from the EU Innovation Fund in July 2023, where the company also scored highest of all Mid-sized projects, achieving 82.5 out of 90 points.

Background and synopsis:

Corporate and investment finance professional with 31 years of Investment banking experience. I have extensive experience in fundraising and M&A activities. Leading and participating in a huge amount of Placements. Previously top rated and highly profiled Investment analyst both domestically and internationally. Has shown high entrepreneurship through founding and developing an investment bank with 2 to 50 employees and going from NOK0 to NOK80 in revenues in five years.

Co-founder of two investment banks and CEO of both. Have advised many companies which under his guidance have grown to large companies. Have in all jobs been a significant contributor for the Companies where he worked.

Co-Founder and previous board member of Norge Mining and CEO of Norwegian subsidiary Norge Mineraler a company which has reported one of largest mineral discoveries in the world in the recent years.

Dr. Valentin Batteiger, Strategic Research Coordinator Future Aviation Fuels, Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V.

Short biography:

Valentin Batteiger coordinates the research on future aviation fuels at Bauhaus Luftfahrt, a think tank with a long-term focus on future mobility and future air travel. His current research interest is on various alternative fuel pathways that potentially enable large-scale renewable fuel supply for aviation. Valentin has been involved in the first solar-thermochemical synthesis of kerosene within the EU projects SOLAR-JET & SUN-to-LIQUID. He co-authored a frequently cited background paper on the perspective of power-to-liquid pathways for aviation (http://bit.ly/2cowOyf). On the biofuel side, he coordinates the EU project CIRCULAIR that develops technologies to convert agricultural residues into jet fuel via a coupled advanced biofuel and power-to-liquid pathway. Valentin represents Bauhaus Luftfahrt in the aireg initiative (aireg – Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V., https://aireg.de) and serves in the Technical Advisory Board of the Aviation Climate Taskforce (https://aviationclimatetaskforce.org/).